Umbrella Coup (1980)
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Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
- Released: 1980-10-08
- Genres: Comedy, Crime
- Runtime: 1h 35m
- Status: Released
- TMDB rating: 6.9/10 from 198 votes
Directed by Gérard Oury.
Top cast
- Pierre Richard as Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps
- Valérie Mairesse as Sylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T.
- Christine Murillo as Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire
- Gérard Jugnot as Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire
- Gordon Mitchell as Moskovitz, le tueur à gages
- Roger Carel as Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison
- Gert Fröbe as Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine
- Maurice Risch as Le producteur de Paris
- Dominique Lavanant as Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire
- Axelle Abbadie as Juliette, la fleuriste, ex-femme non divorcée de Grégoire
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